{"id":13931,"date":"2017-09-14T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pianetadonna.aogoi.it\/non-categorizzato\/adolescents-are-at-higher-risk\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:48:14","slug":"adolescents-are-at-higher-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pianetadonna.aogoi.it\/en\/sexually-transmitted-diseases\/sexually-transmitted-diseases-sexually-transmitted-diseases-2\/adolescents-are-at-higher-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"ADOLESCENTS ARE AT HIGHER RISK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>This is, in fact, true. <strong>Sexually transmitted diseases<\/strong> (<strong>STDs<\/strong>) are more common among <strong>teenagers<\/strong>, especially for girls and for young people under the age of 25. Why? The reasons are different. First, there is increased <strong>sexual promiscuity<\/strong> among young people, <strong>little use of protection,<\/strong> and, unfortunately, according to research, a <strong>lack of information about the risks of unprotected sex,<\/strong> both in regards to a possible unwanted pregnancy as well as in regards to <strong>sexually transmitted diseases<\/strong> (<strong>STDs<\/strong>). According to a recent<strong> report from Censis<\/strong> (a socio-economic research institute), 90% of boys identify sexually transmitted diseases with <a data-id=\"1952\" href=\"\/en\/sexually-transmitted-diseases\/sexually-transmitted-diseases\/aids-acquired-immunodeficiency-syndrome\/\" title=\"AIDS: ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME\"><strong>AIDS<\/strong><\/a>; only 15% know about <a data-id=\"1832\" href=\"\/en\/sexually-transmitted-diseases\/hpv\/\" title=\"HPV\"><strong>Papillomavirus or HPV<\/strong><\/a>, 13% about <a data-id=\"1935\" href=\"\/en\/sexually-transmitted-diseases\/sexually-transmitted-diseases\/does-gonorrea-always-cause-discharge\/\" title=\"DOES GONORREA ALWAYS CAUSE DISCHARGE?\"><strong>gonorrhea<\/strong><\/a>, 11% about <a data-id=\"1949\" href=\"\/en\/sexually-transmitted-diseases\/sexually-transmitted-diseases\/viral-hepatitis-i-read-that-there-are-different-types\/\" title=\"VIRAL HEPATITIS: I READ THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES\"><strong>hepatitis<\/strong><\/a> and 6% about <a data-id=\"1936\" href=\"\/en\/sexually-transmitted-diseases\/sexually-transmitted-diseases\/my-friend-confessed-to-me-that-she-had-chlamydia\/\" title=\"MY FRIEND CONFESSED TO ME THAT SHE HAD CHLAMYDIA\"><strong>chlamydia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most boys do not use a <a data-id=\"1508\" href=\"\/en\/contraception\/contraception\/are-condoms-only-for-him\/\" title=\"ARE CONDOMS ONLY FOR HIM?\"><strong>condom<\/strong><\/a>, or do so only occasionally. It <strong>only takes a single sexual encounter with an infected person<\/strong> &#8211; who may not even have any apparent symptoms &#8211; to be infected with one or more diseases. Some may only be mild, but this is not always the case! Above all, those who have already had an infection have a greater <strong>chance of being reinfected<\/strong>, and have to pay more attention. Various germs have <strong>different incubation periods<\/strong>, and therefore even if everything seems fine and you have no symptoms, after the <strong>doctor&#8217;s diagnosis and undergoing the indicated therapy<\/strong>, it is important to get checked out to make sure that all infections have been effectively resolved so you can avoid any surprises. <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Young girls are more vulnerable<\/span><\/strong><span>, in part because of <strong>the anatomy of the female genitals<\/strong>, which are more susceptible than the male ones. This is partly because <strong>the tissue surrounding the cervix in a teenager is not yet fully mature<\/strong>; it is more delicate than that present in an adult woman, and therefore more fragile when faced with aggressive and resistant bacteria. Among these is <strong>Chlamydia<\/strong>, which prefers young women between the ages of 15 and 24, and the bacteria that causes <strong>gonorrhea<\/strong>, which can affect all ages and often associates with <strong>Chlamydia<\/strong>. According to World Health Organization (WHO), <strong>gonorrhea<\/strong> is increasingly widespread and very contagious. It is reported that about <strong>78 million people a year<\/strong> contract this infection through sexual intercourse, and it is becoming more <strong>resistant to antibiotics<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>My mom keeps telling me this, but I don&#8217;t know if she&#8217;s just saying it to keep me cautious.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[523,524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexually-transmitted-diseases","category-sexually-transmitted-diseases-sexually-transmitted-diseases-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ADOLESCENTS ARE AT HIGHER RISK - 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